The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25

fail. There are great many young men III
this city-yea, in this housewife want n
word of encouragement, Christian encour-
agement One smile of good cheer would
be worth more to them tomorrow morning
in their places of business than present of
fifty thousand dollars ten years hence. o,
l remember the apprehension and the
tremor of entering profession.
remember very well the man who
greeted me in the ecclesiastical court
with the tip ends of the long fingers of
the left hand; and | remember the other
man who took my hand in both of his and
said: God bless you, my brother; you
have entered a glorious profession; be faith
full to God and He will see you through
Why, | feel this minute the thrill OF that
hand-shakng, though the man who gave
mo the Christian grip has been in heaven
twenty-five years There are old men
to-day who can look back to forty
years ago, when some one said kind
word to them Now, old men, pay back
what you got then. 1t is a great art for
old men to be able to encourage the young.
There are many young people i'll our cities
who have come from inland counties of our
own State-frOm the granite hills of the
North, from the savannas of the South,
from the prairies of the West. They are
here to get their fortune. They are in
boarding houses where everybody seems to
panionship, and they want Christian en-
couragement. Give it to them. My word
is to all clerks in this house: Be n,ightier
than your temptations A Sandwich
Islander used to think when he
slew an enemy, all the strength
of that enemy came into his own right arm.
And | have to tell you that every misfor
tune you conquer is so much added to your
moral power. With omnipotence for a
lever, and the throne of God for fulcrum,
you can move earth and heaven. While
there are other young men putting the cup
of sin to their lips, stoop down and drink
out of the fountains of God, and yon will
| rise up strong to thresh the mountains. The
ancients used to think that pearls were
fallen rain drops, which, touching the sur
face of the sea, hardened into gems then
| dropped to the bottom. | have to tell you
! to-day that storms of trial have showered
| imperishablo pearl into many a young mans
| lap o, young mani while you have goods
to sell, remember you have "A soul to save.
In hospital Christian captain, wounded
few days before, got deliriouS, and in the
midnight hour he sprang out on the floor of
the hospital thinking he was in the battle,
crying: Come on, boys Forward! /!
Chargen Ahl he was only battling the
spectre of his own brain. But it is no inn
agnary conflict into which | call you,
young man, to-day There are ten thousand
| spiritual foes that would capture you. In
| the name of God up and at them.
after the last bank has gone down, after the
shuttle of the quick feet on the custom
house steps has stopped, after the long line
| of merchantmen on the sea have taken sail
of flame, after Brooklyn, and New York
and London, and Vienna have gone down
into the grave where Thebes, and Babylon,
| and Tyre lay buried, after the great fire
| - he how bn
| burning Of q world-on that day all the
affairs of banking houses and stores will
| come up for inspection o. what an open
ing of account booksl Side by side, the
clerks and the men who employed them
the people who owned thread-and-needle
stores ON the same footing with the
Stewarts, and the Delanos, and the Abbotts,
and the Barings. Every invoice made out
all the labels of goods-all certificates of
stock-all lists of prices-all private
marks of the firm, now explained
so everybody can understand them. All the
maps of cities that were never built, but in
which lots were sold. All bargains All
gougings. All snap judgments. All false
| entries.\ All authorizations of liquors with
copperas and strychnine. All mixing of teas,
and sugars, and coffees, and syrups with
cheaper material. All embezzlements of
trust funds. All swindles Ia coal, and iron,
and oil, and silver, and stocks. All
| Swartouts, and Huntingtons, and Ketchums
| On that day, when the cities of this world
are smoking in the last confiagration, the
trial will go on; and down in an avalanche
| of destruction will go those who wronged
man or woman, insulted God and defied the
Judgment o. that will be a great day for
| you, ,--honest Christian clerk! ENo getting up
early, no retiring late, no walking around
with weary limbs, but a mansion in which
to live, and realm of light and love and
| Joy, over which to hold everlasting domin-
ion. Hoist him up from glory to glory and
| from song to song and from throne to throne;
for while others go down into the sea with
their gold like a milestone hanging to their
neck, this one shall come up the heights of
amethyst and alabaster, holding in his right
hand the pearl of great price in a sparkling,
glittering flaming casket.